A suicide bomber has killed 20 people at a Sunni Arab funeral west of Baghdad.
Suspicion is likely to fall on Sunni Islamist al Qaeda militants. Al Qaeda is blamed for most suicide attacks in Iraq, and has regularly warned it would target Sunni Arab tribes that have joined forces with the US military to fight the group. The attack comes on the same Rice in Iraq for surprise visit ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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